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* When adjacent to any palatal consonant, /l/ may be realized as [ʎ] or [j] | * When adjacent to any palatal consonant, /l/ may be realized as [ʎ] or [j] | ||
* Many speakers — especially younger ones — sonorize plosives when followed by a long vowel or diphthong carrying a high tone (see Pitch Accent below). For example, dēka > nēka, tobyá > tomyá, pyunam > byunam. | * Many speakers — especially younger ones — sonorize plosives when followed by a long vowel or diphthong carrying a high tone (see Pitch Accent below). For example, dēka > nēka, tobyá > tomyá, pyunam > byunam. | ||
* Sometimes, in particularly casual speech, unstressed, final /s/ and /ɕ/ are debuccalized to [ | * Sometimes, in particularly casual speech, unstressed, final /s/ and /ɕ/ are debuccalized to [ç]. | ||
* Final /r/ is often realized as [ʃ], and in these cases lowers preceding /i/ and /u/ to [ɛ] and [o] | |||
An alternate analysis of the consonants of Saxuma is proposed by some linguists, such as that by Varda below. | An alternate analysis of the consonants of Saxuma is proposed by some linguists, such as that by Varda below. | ||